Immerse yourself in all your favourite content with billions of accurate colours and realistic images with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV, winner of the CES 2022 Innovation Award. With pure OLED black and brilliant vibrancy, the BRAVIA XR is powered by Sony’s Cognitive Processor XR to make take all your favourite content up a notch. The built-in Google assistant makes it simpler than ever to access all your favourite content, all in one place. And with gaming specific settings, you can explore your favourite games like never before. Explore true entertainment with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV.
Immerse yourself in all your favourite content with billions of accurate colours and realistic images with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV, winner of the CES 2022 Innovation Award. With pure OLED black and brilliant vibrancy, the BRAVIA XR is powered by Sony’s Cognitive Processor XR to make take all your favourite content up a notch. The built-in Google assistant makes it simpler than ever to access all your favourite content, all in one place. And with gaming specific settings, you can explore your favourite games like never before. Explore true entertainment with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV.
Immerse yourself in all your favourite content with billions of accurate colours and realistic images with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV, winner of the CES 2022 Innovation Award. With pure OLED black and brilliant vibrancy, the BRAVIA XR is powered by Sony’s Cognitive Processor XR to make take all your favourite content up a notch. The built-in Google assistant makes it simpler than ever to access all your favourite content, all in one place. And with gaming specific settings, you can explore your favourite games like never before. Explore true entertainment with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV.
Immerse yourself in all your favourite content with billions of accurate colours and realistic images with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV, winner of the CES 2022 Innovation Award. With pure OLED black and brilliant vibrancy, the BRAVIA XR is powered by Sony’s Cognitive Processor XR to make take all your favourite content up a notch. The built-in Google assistant makes it simpler than ever to access all your favourite content, all in one place. And with gaming specific settings, you can explore your favourite games like never before. Explore true entertainment with the Sony BRAVIA XR TV.
Last updated at 03/31/2026 03:22:39
SONY Bravia 55 inches XR Series 4K Ultra HD Smart Full Array LED Google TV (XR-55X90K)
Delivery $29.13
originally posted on bestbuy.com
Bought this to replace a Samsung that appeared to have a malfunctioning HDMI port.In the two most important ways, this Sony is a much better set, even accounting for the differences in their specifications.For starters, the picture quality is more consistent, and looks better from an angle than the Samsung, which wasn't bad, but tended to look washed out in comparison (especially from any angle other than straight on).Next, the sound quality is less anemic than the Samsung, the thin sound of which prompted me to get the soundbar I've been using the last couple of years. (I'm going to continue using the soundbar, but that's mainly because I've become used to the low frequencies provided by the paired subwoofer, and TV sound seems thin without it.)There are ... MoreBought this to replace a Samsung that appeared to have a malfunctioning HDMI port.In the two most important ways, this Sony is a much better set, even accounting for the differences in their specifications.For starters, the picture quality is more consistent, and looks better from an angle than the Samsung, which wasn't bad, but tended to look washed out in comparison (especially from any angle other than straight on).Next, the sound quality is less anemic than the Samsung, the thin sound of which prompted me to get the soundbar I've been using the last couple of years. (I'm going to continue using the soundbar, but that's mainly because I've become used to the low frequencies provided by the paired subwoofer, and TV sound seems thin without it.)There are some other nice features the Sony offers:The remote control is much better than the minimalist remote that came with the Samsung. Its layout makes much more sense—and I'm already noticing that I'm less likely to press the wrong button by mistake. (Although the Samsung remote has a solar recharging feature and a USB-C port, eliminating the need for conventional batteries.)The "screen off" function is a nice surprise. In conjunction with the sleep timer, you can have music or a video play you to sleep without having to contend with the brightness of a TV screen.Audio sync (between set and soundbar, if you're using one) is automatic—a lot more convenient than having to experiment with coarse manual settings that might work for one input source but be slightly off for another.The volume control is a lot finer. On the one hand, it feels a little weird to turn the volume up to 50 (it goes up to 100); on the other, that means it doesn't go from zero to full blast (this is with the soundbar) in just a small number of presses of the volume control.There are some things that could be improved with this set, however:1. The operating system. Whether it's Android (Google TV) or Sony, a lot of stuff is buried in menus (including that annoying sound every time you press anything on the remote—when I did find the setting to turn that off, it was several hours later, and I found it only while I was looking for something else). And setup is a lot more involved than it needs to be—for example, it really shouldn't be necessary to install yet another app (Google Home) on my phone, yet that was required in order to use the QR code to avoid having to do a lot of "typing" with the remote. (Plus I'm not a fan of Android anyway.)2. With the Samsung, everything connected to it was essentially integrated to the point where it wasn't necessary to have all remotes handy.For example, to watch a movie, turning on the blu-ray or DVD player would also turn on the TV, with the correct input selected automatically (even if the TV and player are different brands)—no need to turn on the TV, then the player, and then change the input using the TV remote before starting the movie.Unlike the Samsung, however, the Sony has a "Quick Settings" menu that enables you to select the input and make other adjustments without having to go to the home screen and then locate the appropriate submenu (which was easy to miss on the first try because the Samsung menu's layout was not as intuitive as it should have been, resulting in a lot of skipping around with the cursor).3. The sleep timer only goes up to 120 minutes. (A little thing to be sure, but the Samsung's timer went up to 180, and the LG I had before that went up to 240.)4. The Sony was really slow reading the contents of a USB flash drive when first inserted. It took long enough, in fact, it wasn't until I had formatted and loaded videos on a second USB flash drive that the set was able to display the contents of more than one folder on the first drive (except for one that contained only still images)—which easily took about an hour. I never encountered any such delay using that same drive with the Samsung.In the end, though, it's a television, so the picture and sound quality are what's important. I can put up with the little inconveniences—although I hope they will address some of them in future updates.
originally posted on sony.com.au
Had the TV for about 3 months now and overall really pleased with the quality of picture and speed of the interface. Full disclosure, this is my first time buying above an entry level TV so my expectations for spending 2-3 price are high. I paid around AU$1.8k on special.Compared to my mid level TCL Google TV that often hangs when switching between apps this Sony Google TV is snappy and seamless. The quality of colour and the depth of the blacks is very impressive but does have its shortcomings. Particularly noticeable when playing games with white loading screens, but presents in all contexts, there is silhouetting in the corners (darker in the corners where the light distribution fails to properly fill). I personally find it very distracting and have never ... MoreHad the TV for about 3 months now and overall really pleased with the quality of picture and speed of the interface. Full disclosure, this is my first time buying above an entry level TV so my expectations for spending 2-3 price are high. I paid around AU$1.8k on special.Compared to my mid level TCL Google TV that often hangs when switching between apps this Sony Google TV is snappy and seamless. The quality of colour and the depth of the blacks is very impressive but does have its shortcomings. Particularly noticeable when playing games with white loading screens, but presents in all contexts, there is silhouetting in the corners (darker in the corners where the light distribution fails to properly fill). I personally find it very distracting and have never experienced this with even much cheaper TVs, which is really disappointing but apparently common with this type of panel. Had the TV not been so big and wall mounted I probably would have returned it for that reason alone.The other key gripe is again on game loading screens, black screens that have white text or icons, because the blacks are so dark, there's a noticeable glow around those specific areas. That part is really only noticeable in that scenario however and isn't detrimental to general video viewing.Less important miscellaneous details, you cannot control optical audio with the remote which I could do on an older Sony TV so now I have to connect via headphone aux port which automatically lowers the output which is annoying. The TV doesn't have any RCA ports and doesn't come with an adapter (sold separately) which my cheaper TCL included for free. Last issue is that default remote it comes with is pretty basic and I don't find the button positioning intuitive. The TV help info told me the remote has back light and "find my remote" functionality but apparently that is only on a higher tier TV, or perhaps in overseas markets.Overall a very nice TV and generally happy but personally at the price, I'd hoped to be more satisfied. Maybe others who have spent much more expensive OLED TV's would consider this cheap and perfectly adequate
originally posted on sony.com.au
Recently upgraded during the Black Friday sales. I upgraded to take advantage of the newer HDMI 2.1 features with my PS5 (and AV receiver with eARC). The TV is great for gaming as I had hoped and is a nice improvement from my previous TV when it comes to TV and movies (the X90E is still really solid in this regard).The local dimming and HDR is a nice improvement, my previous TV didn’t do dolby vision so that's a welcome addition. The colours and highlights really pop and the vibrancy of the colours is really noticeable (using custom or cinema with expert1 colour and most excessive enhancements switched off).The remote is a nice improvement, much smaller but keeping all the buttons I actually need. The menu changes are also smartly done with the prior app ... MoreRecently upgraded during the Black Friday sales. I upgraded to take advantage of the newer HDMI 2.1 features with my PS5 (and AV receiver with eARC). The TV is great for gaming as I had hoped and is a nice improvement from my previous TV when it comes to TV and movies (the X90E is still really solid in this regard).The local dimming and HDR is a nice improvement, my previous TV didn’t do dolby vision so that's a welcome addition. The colours and highlights really pop and the vibrancy of the colours is really noticeable (using custom or cinema with expert1 colour and most excessive enhancements switched off).The remote is a nice improvement, much smaller but keeping all the buttons I actually need. The menu changes are also smartly done with the prior app shortcuts being incorporated into the inputs menu (if you want it). I also really like the quick settings and the level of customization that is available.The eARC feature works great with my older STRDN 1080 Sony receiver passing through Atmos and such through flawlessly. Also from a sound perspective the Airplay 2 addition is really nice (amp has airplay 1) as it responds quicker and integrates better with home kit. My wife and I regularly use the TV and screen off function for music and the dolby sound setting smartly selects multi speaker stereo for music (which sounds great with my setup).Minor gripe if anything is that the picture appears to be a bit cooler than my previous TV with the same settings (custom/cinema in expert1). It may just be adjusting to the more vibrant picture of the new TV but I’ve never felt the need to properly/proffesionally calibrate a Sony TV before and I’m hoping this won't be the first.As with the previous x90E I really don’t think there is a better midrange TV available in Australia. Very happy over all.
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| Product Type | LED-backlit LCD TV - Smart TV |
| Energy Class | Class G |
| Energy Class (HDR) | Class G |
| Power Consumption SDR (On mode) | 93 kWh/1000h |
SONY Bravia 55 inches XR Series 4K Ultra HD Smart Full Array LED Google TV (XR-55X90K)
Delivery $29.13
Bought this to replace a Samsung that appeared to have a malfunctioning HDMI port.In the two most important ways, this Sony is a much better set, even accounting for the differences in their specifications.For starters, the picture quality is more consistent, and looks better from an angle than the Samsung, which wasn't bad, but tended to look washed out in comparison (especially from any angle other than straight on).Next, the sound quality is less anemic than the Samsung, the thin sound of which prompted me to get the soundbar I've been using the last couple of years. (I'm going to continue using the soundbar, but that's mainly because I've become used to the low frequencies provided by the paired subwoofer, and TV sound seems thin without it.)There are ... MoreBought this to replace a Samsung that appeared to have a malfunctioning HDMI port.In the two most important ways, this Sony is a much better set, even accounting for the differences in their specifications.For starters, the picture quality is more consistent, and looks better from an angle than the Samsung, which wasn't bad, but tended to look washed out in comparison (especially from any angle other than straight on).Next, the sound quality is less anemic than the Samsung, the thin sound of which prompted me to get the soundbar I've been using the last couple of years. (I'm going to continue using the soundbar, but that's mainly because I've become used to the low frequencies provided by the paired subwoofer, and TV sound seems thin without it.)There are some other nice features the Sony offers:The remote control is much better than the minimalist remote that came with the Samsung. Its layout makes much more sense—and I'm already noticing that I'm less likely to press the wrong button by mistake. (Although the Samsung remote has a solar recharging feature and a USB-C port, eliminating the need for conventional batteries.)The "screen off" function is a nice surprise. In conjunction with the sleep timer, you can have music or a video play you to sleep without having to contend with the brightness of a TV screen.Audio sync (between set and soundbar, if you're using one) is automatic—a lot more convenient than having to experiment with coarse manual settings that might work for one input source but be slightly off for another.The volume control is a lot finer. On the one hand, it feels a little weird to turn the volume up to 50 (it goes up to 100); on the other, that means it doesn't go from zero to full blast (this is with the soundbar) in just a small number of presses of the volume control.There are some things that could be improved with this set, however:1. The operating system. Whether it's Android (Google TV) or Sony, a lot of stuff is buried in menus (including that annoying sound every time you press anything on the remote—when I did find the setting to turn that off, it was several hours later, and I found it only while I was looking for something else). And setup is a lot more involved than it needs to be—for example, it really shouldn't be necessary to install yet another app (Google Home) on my phone, yet that was required in order to use the QR code to avoid having to do a lot of "typing" with the remote. (Plus I'm not a fan of Android anyway.)2. With the Samsung, everything connected to it was essentially integrated to the point where it wasn't necessary to have all remotes handy.For example, to watch a movie, turning on the blu-ray or DVD player would also turn on the TV, with the correct input selected automatically (even if the TV and player are different brands)—no need to turn on the TV, then the player, and then change the input using the TV remote before starting the movie.Unlike the Samsung, however, the Sony has a "Quick Settings" menu that enables you to select the input and make other adjustments without having to go to the home screen and then locate the appropriate submenu (which was easy to miss on the first try because the Samsung menu's layout was not as intuitive as it should have been, resulting in a lot of skipping around with the cursor).3. The sleep timer only goes up to 120 minutes. (A little thing to be sure, but the Samsung's timer went up to 180, and the LG I had before that went up to 240.)4. The Sony was really slow reading the contents of a USB flash drive when first inserted. It took long enough, in fact, it wasn't until I had formatted and loaded videos on a second USB flash drive that the set was able to display the contents of more than one folder on the first drive (except for one that contained only still images)—which easily took about an hour. I never encountered any such delay using that same drive with the Samsung.In the end, though, it's a television, so the picture and sound quality are what's important. I can put up with the little inconveniences—although I hope they will address some of them in future updates.
Had the TV for about 3 months now and overall really pleased with the quality of picture and speed of the interface. Full disclosure, this is my first time buying above an entry level TV so my expectations for spending 2-3 price are high. I paid around AU$1.8k on special.Compared to my mid level TCL Google TV that often hangs when switching between apps this Sony Google TV is snappy and seamless. The quality of colour and the depth of the blacks is very impressive but does have its shortcomings. Particularly noticeable when playing games with white loading screens, but presents in all contexts, there is silhouetting in the corners (darker in the corners where the light distribution fails to properly fill). I personally find it very distracting and have never ... MoreHad the TV for about 3 months now and overall really pleased with the quality of picture and speed of the interface. Full disclosure, this is my first time buying above an entry level TV so my expectations for spending 2-3 price are high. I paid around AU$1.8k on special.Compared to my mid level TCL Google TV that often hangs when switching between apps this Sony Google TV is snappy and seamless. The quality of colour and the depth of the blacks is very impressive but does have its shortcomings. Particularly noticeable when playing games with white loading screens, but presents in all contexts, there is silhouetting in the corners (darker in the corners where the light distribution fails to properly fill). I personally find it very distracting and have never experienced this with even much cheaper TVs, which is really disappointing but apparently common with this type of panel. Had the TV not been so big and wall mounted I probably would have returned it for that reason alone.The other key gripe is again on game loading screens, black screens that have white text or icons, because the blacks are so dark, there's a noticeable glow around those specific areas. That part is really only noticeable in that scenario however and isn't detrimental to general video viewing.Less important miscellaneous details, you cannot control optical audio with the remote which I could do on an older Sony TV so now I have to connect via headphone aux port which automatically lowers the output which is annoying. The TV doesn't have any RCA ports and doesn't come with an adapter (sold separately) which my cheaper TCL included for free. Last issue is that default remote it comes with is pretty basic and I don't find the button positioning intuitive. The TV help info told me the remote has back light and "find my remote" functionality but apparently that is only on a higher tier TV, or perhaps in overseas markets.Overall a very nice TV and generally happy but personally at the price, I'd hoped to be more satisfied. Maybe others who have spent much more expensive OLED TV's would consider this cheap and perfectly adequate
Recently upgraded during the Black Friday sales. I upgraded to take advantage of the newer HDMI 2.1 features with my PS5 (and AV receiver with eARC). The TV is great for gaming as I had hoped and is a nice improvement from my previous TV when it comes to TV and movies (the X90E is still really solid in this regard).The local dimming and HDR is a nice improvement, my previous TV didn’t do dolby vision so that's a welcome addition. The colours and highlights really pop and the vibrancy of the colours is really noticeable (using custom or cinema with expert1 colour and most excessive enhancements switched off).The remote is a nice improvement, much smaller but keeping all the buttons I actually need. The menu changes are also smartly done with the prior app ... MoreRecently upgraded during the Black Friday sales. I upgraded to take advantage of the newer HDMI 2.1 features with my PS5 (and AV receiver with eARC). The TV is great for gaming as I had hoped and is a nice improvement from my previous TV when it comes to TV and movies (the X90E is still really solid in this regard).The local dimming and HDR is a nice improvement, my previous TV didn’t do dolby vision so that's a welcome addition. The colours and highlights really pop and the vibrancy of the colours is really noticeable (using custom or cinema with expert1 colour and most excessive enhancements switched off).The remote is a nice improvement, much smaller but keeping all the buttons I actually need. The menu changes are also smartly done with the prior app shortcuts being incorporated into the inputs menu (if you want it). I also really like the quick settings and the level of customization that is available.The eARC feature works great with my older STRDN 1080 Sony receiver passing through Atmos and such through flawlessly. Also from a sound perspective the Airplay 2 addition is really nice (amp has airplay 1) as it responds quicker and integrates better with home kit. My wife and I regularly use the TV and screen off function for music and the dolby sound setting smartly selects multi speaker stereo for music (which sounds great with my setup).Minor gripe if anything is that the picture appears to be a bit cooler than my previous TV with the same settings (custom/cinema in expert1). It may just be adjusting to the more vibrant picture of the new TV but I’ve never felt the need to properly/proffesionally calibrate a Sony TV before and I’m hoping this won't be the first.As with the previous x90E I really don’t think there is a better midrange TV available in Australia. Very happy over all.
Good TV, I find the picture quality to be about 80% as good as my OLED, which is impressive to say the least. OLED picture quality has made me spoiled. Colors are vibrant, good detail. That being said I did have to reign in the picture settings a bit to get the TV to display it's best. It's par for the course with any new TV.The Google TV interface has some plusses and also some minor things that are frustrating. I mostly like the overall interface, there are a lot of apps,. However, the organization of the home screen pushes promoted content on you, above your customized applications. The streaming apps you have installed are secondary, laid out in a single horizonal line, which means it extends off the end of the screen so you have to horizontally scroll to get ... MoreGood TV, I find the picture quality to be about 80% as good as my OLED, which is impressive to say the least. OLED picture quality has made me spoiled. Colors are vibrant, good detail. That being said I did have to reign in the picture settings a bit to get the TV to display it's best. It's par for the course with any new TV.The Google TV interface has some plusses and also some minor things that are frustrating. I mostly like the overall interface, there are a lot of apps,. However, the organization of the home screen pushes promoted content on you, above your customized applications. The streaming apps you have installed are secondary, laid out in a single horizonal line, which means it extends off the end of the screen so you have to horizontally scroll to get to most of your installed apps. The reason is like that is because of all the promoted content taking up most of the screen. You have to scroll first down away from the promoted content to get to your apps.The other main frustration is reverting back to the TV home screen interface while you're in an app with content paused. This occurs in as little as 5 to 10 minutes when content is paused. This forces you to go back into the app you had open previously and then scroll to find recently watched content, and start it again. Some previously watched content does show up on the home screen, but not everything. And in some cases it does not remember what episode you were paused on and takes you to the main page for the series.It's like your constantly starting over from scratch every time you pause for more than 5 to 10 minutes.WebOS is definitely better and more responsive than Google TV, and I miss how quick text entry is with the pointer over having to use the cursor.Google assistant works well except it's geared toward providing web results rather than media results, so you have to be explicit in your queries. I don't surf the web on the TV so I don't care for web results. Only results specifically related to streaming or finding content to watch.The voice assistant in WebOS is better in this respect, which is funny considering it's the same Google assistant, but just tailored more toward media results.The only other issue I encountered is the audio in the TVs default configuration is horrible, extremely bright eq centered at between 800 to 2KHz, peaking at about 1KHz. I had to drop the EQ about 50% in those ranges and boost the lower ranges about 20% to make the audio flat so that it didn't sound tinny and compressed. I'm still scratching my head about the choices that were made in the audio defaults. TV audio is usually never that good to begin with but the TV speakers are icapable of mostly full range balanced audio, but why they would hobble the audio so horribly out of the box? I literally had to get someone to help me validate the audio settings to verify they were that far off by default and that I wasn't crazy or losing my hearing (Happy to say, I'm not). Sony is capable of doing better.Aside from these minor annoyances is a pretty good TV (with some amount of effort involved).
Though this TV has a great picture and was a huge upgrade from the older 4K TV, that is where it ends for me.I have our main Cox cable box connected and first bought a Denon S970H and returned it for a Denon X2800H because of problems with the first turning on at random times after shutting down the system. Well, that didn't fix anything. The problem is the Sony TV and I researched everything at this point to stop the Denon and Sony from using auto power settings, but the Sony still prevailed.This TV and its controls want to own what you attach to it and I have tried everything to solve the issue through settings. I did manage to stop it from turning off the main cable box that was causing problems and confusing the operation of the cable box but it still ... MoreThough this TV has a great picture and was a huge upgrade from the older 4K TV, that is where it ends for me.I have our main Cox cable box connected and first bought a Denon S970H and returned it for a Denon X2800H because of problems with the first turning on at random times after shutting down the system. Well, that didn't fix anything. The problem is the Sony TV and I researched everything at this point to stop the Denon and Sony from using auto power settings, but the Sony still prevailed.This TV and its controls want to own what you attach to it and I have tried everything to solve the issue through settings. I did manage to stop it from turning off the main cable box that was causing problems and confusing the operation of the cable box but it still attempts to turn it on each time the TV is turned on, I have not been able to stop the New Denon from turning on. I am sure this is a problem with the Sony and it makes the overall use of the very nice "all new" components including a Panasonic high end 4K DVD very frustrating. It automatically switches on the receiver when the TV starts. If we want to watch TV without all speakers from the system, I must turn off the Denon. After tuning the amp off, it looses connection to the TV and becomes non-functional for anything until we restart the whole system again and let the Sony TV restart the amp. Again, the Sony takes control.If you plan to use this in conjunction with anything above a sound bar, you will likely experience similar problems.My apologies to Best Buy for returning the original amp since this was a Sony problem but the new one was a nice upgrade and I am happy with the Denons performance.Too bad this is occurring. I always had confidence in Sony up to this point. In the future I will not buy anything with the Sony name on it.
Great TV. I am very happy both with the picture clarity and the sound (without a sound bar). The TV seems to be good quality, living up to Sony reputation. It's my first smart TV with lots of apps and features and was relatively easy to set up. It can cast both my phone and computer to the TV which is great. Nice being introduced to 12 months free to Brava Core, as I have never experienced "streaming" movies. It was good to have many apps like Youtube and catch up TV already installed.The only downsides/room for improvement for SONY: 1) the streamlined mini remote has no numbers, so channel selection has to be all done through numerous clicks on the screen. Clunky navigation. This is salvaged somewhat by having voice recognition on the remote that can take ... MoreGreat TV. I am very happy both with the picture clarity and the sound (without a sound bar). The TV seems to be good quality, living up to Sony reputation. It's my first smart TV with lots of apps and features and was relatively easy to set up. It can cast both my phone and computer to the TV which is great. Nice being introduced to 12 months free to Brava Core, as I have never experienced "streaming" movies. It was good to have many apps like Youtube and catch up TV already installed.The only downsides/room for improvement for SONY: 1) the streamlined mini remote has no numbers, so channel selection has to be all done through numerous clicks on the screen. Clunky navigation. This is salvaged somewhat by having voice recognition on the remote that can take instructions by voice. 2) Why oh why are the ports on the back? This makes them inaccessible for a wall mounted TV, saved somewhat by having to plug in all the HDMI cords and put them through the wall. Not sure what the special HDMI3 plug is, but I think the installer plugged the wrong chord in, but I can't change it now. Also I am not able to reach the USB port so can't use it at all. 3) It doesn't have plugs to enable me to plug in my DVD (I have lots of home vids I want to keep) I had to buy an adapter. 4) No Manual as to what all the smart features can do, saved somewhat by being able to google it on the Sony site, although I still don't understand how to use some of the features. It would be great if Sony could provide a comprehensive Manual with the TV or at least make a video for dummies explaining everything and provide new smart TV purchasers with the link. 5) Too much advertising of movies to purchase etc on the Home Screen, necessitating several clicks scrolling down to actually get to my apps. I don't know how to reconfigure the Home Screen or get rid of all the "suggested movies" to show apps I use (like YouTube and catch ups TV) first. If Sony could address those little issues: a remote with numbers, ports on the side, ports to directly plug in a DVD, a Manual for new smart TV users, and less paid movie advertising on the Home Screen, I would probably give the TV 5 star, because it really does look like a great TV.
The Sony Bravia 55" TV is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to experience high-quality visuals and immersive audio in the comfort of their own home. This TV boasts a 4K Ultra HD resolution, which delivers stunningly clear and detailed images that make every scene come to life. Additionally, the TV features a Triluminos display that enhances color accuracy and provides a wider color gamut, allowing you to enjoy a more realistic and vibrant picture.The Sony Bravia 55" TV also comes equipped with advanced features such as HDR (High Dynamic Range) and X-tended Dynamic Range Pro, which deliver exceptional contrast and brightness levels. This means that you can watch your favorite movies, TV shows, and sports events with incredible clarity, detail, and depth. The ... MoreThe Sony Bravia 55" TV is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to experience high-quality visuals and immersive audio in the comfort of their own home. This TV boasts a 4K Ultra HD resolution, which delivers stunningly clear and detailed images that make every scene come to life. Additionally, the TV features a Triluminos display that enhances color accuracy and provides a wider color gamut, allowing you to enjoy a more realistic and vibrant picture.The Sony Bravia 55" TV also comes equipped with advanced features such as HDR (High Dynamic Range) and X-tended Dynamic Range Pro, which deliver exceptional contrast and brightness levels. This means that you can watch your favorite movies, TV shows, and sports events with incredible clarity, detail, and depth. The TV also has a 120Hz refresh rate, which ensures that fast-moving scenes are smooth and blur-free.In terms of audio, the Sony Bravia 55" TV is no slouch either. It comes with a powerful and immersive sound system that includes Dolby Atmos, which creates a 3D surround sound experience. This means that you can enjoy a cinematic audio experience right in your living room.The TV is also designed with convenience in mind. It has built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, which allows you to access streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu with ease. You can also connect your other devices, such as gaming consoles and soundbars, using the TV's multiple HDMI ports.Overall, the Sony Bravia 55" TV is a top-of-the-line television that delivers stunning visuals and immersive audio. It's packed with advanced features and is designed for convenience and ease of use. If you're looking for a high-end TV that will take your viewing experience to the next level, then the Sony Bravia 55" TV is definitely worth considering.
I love this tv. The Sony - 65" X90K BRAVIA XR TV! This is a top-of-the-line TV with all the features you could possibly want in a modern Smart TV.First, let's talk about the picture quality. The 65" X90K BRAVIA XR boasts 4K Ultra HD resolution, which provides an incredibly crisp and detailed picture. The colors are incredibly vibrant, and true-to-life, and the contrast is outstanding thanks to its Full Array LED backlighting. The HDR technology only adds to the immersive experience by providing an even greater range of colors and brightness. The X90K BRAVIA XR can easily adapt to any room and environment, adjusting its brightness and contrast to match the ambient lighting.In terms of design, the X90K BRAVIA XR is sleek and modern, with a thin bezel that makes ... MoreI love this tv. The Sony - 65" X90K BRAVIA XR TV! This is a top-of-the-line TV with all the features you could possibly want in a modern Smart TV.First, let's talk about the picture quality. The 65" X90K BRAVIA XR boasts 4K Ultra HD resolution, which provides an incredibly crisp and detailed picture. The colors are incredibly vibrant, and true-to-life, and the contrast is outstanding thanks to its Full Array LED backlighting. The HDR technology only adds to the immersive experience by providing an even greater range of colors and brightness. The X90K BRAVIA XR can easily adapt to any room and environment, adjusting its brightness and contrast to match the ambient lighting.In terms of design, the X90K BRAVIA XR is sleek and modern, with a thin bezel that makes the TV look almost borderless. The TV is also surprisingly slim, which is impressive considering the Full Array LED technology it packs inside. This TV looks great whether it's mounted on a wall or sitting on a stand, and it blends in seamlessly with any room decor.The X90K BRAVIA XR also has a built-in Google TV operating system, which means it is incredibly easy to use and navigate. You can access your favorite apps, stream your favorite shows and movies, and even control your smart home devices all through your TV. The remote control is intuitive and simple to use, with a voice control option that allows you to search for content and navigate the TV with ease.Overall, I can confidently say that the Sony - 65" X90K BRAVIA XR Full Array LED 4K Ultra HD High Dynamic Range HDR Smart TV (Google TV) is an amazing investment. Its picture quality, design, and user experience are all top-notch, and it's easy to see why this TV has garnered so many positive reviews. If you're looking for a premium TV that will provide an incredible viewing experience and seamlessly integrate with your smart home devices, then this TV is definitely worth considering. I highly recommend it!
Overall I am happy with the set. When you compare features and performance this set offers the best bang for your buck. Currently I have a 55" OLED in the bedroom and it's absolutely stunning. However needed a bigger set for the theater. Initially I was looking at going OLED again, but the price is still very high for OLED.I saw an LG QNED online, and curiosity got me looking more into the technologies on standard LED. Given the larger screen and lower cost I was intrigued, so made a trip into the local store to check out the sets.We looked at LG QNED 80 and 85 and Sony X85 and X90. In the LG we couldn't really tell a difference between the 80 and 85. However, the LG still struggled with Black (all non OLED will struggle with Black, I knew this going in) and in ... MoreOverall I am happy with the set. When you compare features and performance this set offers the best bang for your buck. Currently I have a 55" OLED in the bedroom and it's absolutely stunning. However needed a bigger set for the theater. Initially I was looking at going OLED again, but the price is still very high for OLED.I saw an LG QNED online, and curiosity got me looking more into the technologies on standard LED. Given the larger screen and lower cost I was intrigued, so made a trip into the local store to check out the sets.We looked at LG QNED 80 and 85 and Sony X85 and X90. In the LG we couldn't really tell a difference between the 80 and 85. However, the LG still struggled with Black (all non OLED will struggle with Black, I knew this going in) and in looking at the Sony, it handles the black much better.Another nice thing about the Sony is that they include Dolby Vision on the 85 series which was $1,700 compared to the LG at 2k, which didn't include Dolby Vision, if you wanted the Dolby vision in LG you were at $2,300. The vibrance of color is noticeable in Dolby Vision compared to HDR10. You can find HDR10 in a $999 85" mediocre picture quality tv, so it's nothing special. Dolby vision on the other hand provides about 6 billion colors vs the 2 billion in HDR10, it just makes everything brighter and more vibrant.The XR processor vs X1 processor is about 5% more powerful from what I was able to figure out in research, while it may not sound like much, I definitely noticed the color was much richer and motion was smoother and it had better contrast and detail, especially in blacks. Still not as good as OLED, but this was about 90% compared to OLED 100%. Many of the less expensive sets are 30 to 40% of OLED in black performance.So for size of scree and quality of image, I am very happy with what I paid, it does an excellent job, lot's of features, and of course it's Sony who is known for television and video performance.However a couple of items that I am going to be critical about, and the reason I ultimately gave this set 4 stars in side of 5, and no it's not because it's to OLED that wouldn't be fair, it is areas what were a struggle with set.For starters the initial configuration was a pain, and ultimately to get decent performance you needed to configure with google, kind of a pain, and there's a lot of things you can't opt out of. Clicked a wrong button in initial set up and ultimately we ended up needing to do a factory reset and try and again (in Defense of Sony, we also did find that the cable went bad). This alone wouldn't justify knocking it down to 4 stars. Now that the set is configured and running it's great.However, the reason for deducting 1 star is that the set occasionally struggles with the FIRETV stick, occasionally the picture would stutter and wasn't very smooth. I noticed it in a few different areas. This was from Disney+ and Discovery both which are also native on the set, so I tried watching the same thing from the app built into the set vs the FireTV stick, and had no issues, switched back to FIreTV and it still struggled.While normally this wouldn't be a big deal, this is part of our home theater, and we didn't run an optical cable behind the wall to the receiver, just and HDMI cable, so if we want to take advantage of true Dolby Atmos and the power of good audio equipment, we need to run our streaming off of the FireTV stick routed through the receiver.Before you go start thinking it could be an issue with the receiver, we also tried plugging the FireTV directly into the the TV to eliminate the receiver as the source of the issue.Ultimately because the set does a great job, I only took 1 star off. The workaround for the FireTV issue is to use the streaming directly on the set and use the optical audio out to send audio info to receiver. However, that's another cable to purchase and run, and unfortunately in our situation, there isn't really a good way to fish it through the wall without making holes.If you don't want to use a surround system or sound bar, this set has good quality audio for a TV speakers. It doesn't compare to a sound bar which doesn't compare to a receiver. But compared to other TV speakers it does a great job. I actually don't know if I would recommend a sound bar for this, the dialog was easy enough to understand on this set and it did manage to fill the room and still maintain clarity.For a TV only application this is a 5 star set, but when used as the display for a home theater, it had some challenges and ultimately I deducted 1 star, there are work arounds which is why I only took 1 star off instead of 2.Remember, it's not an OLED so this has limitations. However, when looking at budge considerations this set offer a good middle ground between traditional LED and OLED. Ultimately I do recommend this set, but believe in giving honest and fair assessments and details so people can see real world experience.
The TV itself is excellent with clear bright screen and good sound. If you don't have expectations from owning a previous SONY Bravia 55" TV then you will likely be happy (4-5 stars).However, if you have owned a previous Bravia 55" TV, then you need completely check out the specifications to make sure this newer model will meet your requirements.In our case, we were surprised and very disappointed. We had owned and loved the earlier XBR-55X900E for 5+ years when it suddenly went dark and could not be repaired. Our mistake was thinking SONY would keep key design features the same so we ordered the TV without doing our research. Big mistake.The biggest surprise was that stand had changed from about 20" wide to over 40". This meant it no longer could be placed on ... MoreThe TV itself is excellent with clear bright screen and good sound. If you don't have expectations from owning a previous SONY Bravia 55" TV then you will likely be happy (4-5 stars).However, if you have owned a previous Bravia 55" TV, then you need completely check out the specifications to make sure this newer model will meet your requirements.In our case, we were surprised and very disappointed. We had owned and loved the earlier XBR-55X900E for 5+ years when it suddenly went dark and could not be repaired. Our mistake was thinking SONY would keep key design features the same so we ordered the TV without doing our research. Big mistake.The biggest surprise was that stand had changed from about 20" wide to over 40". This meant it no longer could be placed on our 36" TV furniture so it had to be put on the floor. When SONY decided to widen the stand (to accommodate an optional sound bar), they could have easily and safely provided a customer option to put the stand closer -- but they didn't, so buyer beware. We are still trying to figure out what to do with our TV.The second surprise was that they eliminated the headphone/audio-out jack. We had used that to control an amplified sub-woofer and it worked great. They do have a digital optical audio output, and there are inexpensive adapters to convert to mini-plugs, but unlike the headphone/audio-out jack the optical audio output cannot be controlled by the TV remote in parallel with the TV speakers are in use. Another simple feature they could have retained but didn't think to.Finally, if you are still using older devices with RCA, S-Video, or composite outputs be prepared to purchase HDMI converters. It only has one mini-plug input capable of RCA input and that requires a special wire adapter.
| General | |
| Product Type | LED-backlit LCD TV - Smart TV |
| Energy Class | Class G |
| Energy Class (HDR) | Class G |
| Power Consumption SDR (On mode) | 93 kWh/1000h |
